Make a 75% face coverage photo
UPSC asks for a photo where your face covers about three quarters (75%) of the frame. Drop your photo below. The tool finds your face, crops the photo so the face fills about 75% of its height, tells you the share it measured, and saves a JPG inside the KB range. It runs in your browser and never uploads the photo.
1. Choose
- Pixels:
- about 350 × 350 px
- File size:
- 20–200 KB
- Format:
- JPG
- Background:
- white
- Face share:
- about 75% of the height (from the notice)
Source: UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2026 — Examination Notice No. 05/2026-CSE (4 Feb 2026), checked 3 Oct 2026
Change the output size
The notice gives an approximate size, so you can pick another one close to it.
2. Fix
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC (where the browser can open it). Large phone photos are fine.
Nothing is uploaded. Everything runs on this device.
Which exams ask for a face share
Only some notices give a figure. This table lists every exam in our data whose notice states one, with the notice and the date we checked it. For the other exams the photo tool still shows a guide, labelled as a suggestion.
How the face share is measured
We measure from the top of the head to the chin, as a share of the photo's height. A face-detection model finds the face on your device, and the tool estimates the top of the head from the face box, so read the number as "about". If the tool can't find a face, it says so and you frame the photo by hand with the guide.
Tips
- 1Start from a photo taken at arm's length or more, at eye level. A close selfie distorts the face, and cropping can't fix that.
- 2Keep your hair and both ears inside the frame. UPSC asks for both ears to be visible, so don't let the crop cut the sides of the head.
- 3If the face share reads above 85%, zoom out a little: the top of the hair or the chin may be cut off.
- 4Use a plain white wall. If the background check says grey, tap "Make the background white".
- 5Keep the original. If a portal rejects the photo, crop again from the original, not from the small file.
Already have the file? Check it before upload. Need a signature too? Open the UPSC signature.
Updated 26 October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
- What does 75% face coverage mean in the UPSC photo?
- Your face should take up about three quarters of the photo, with little background or shoulder around it. We read it as the height from the top of your head to your chin being about 75% of the photo's height. A typical studio passport photo shows more shoulders than that.
- Which exams need 75% face coverage?
- In our exam data, UPSC's notices for the Civil Services, NDA, CDS and ESE exams ask for about three quarters. NTA exams such as NEET UG, JEE Main and CUET UG ask for 80%. The table on this page lists each exam with its notice.
Page updated 26 October 2026. How we check exam facts